Here are simple steps to voice your support for the Trust to act on the housing crisis now.
We have created an exhibition: quotes, excerpts, and photos from these heart breaking #GoodbyeSaltSpring stories have been made beautiful by a talented local designer and posted, in a quilt like fashion, on the windows next to Salt Spring Coffee. It’s a powerful display of what’s going on in our community today.
Our coordinator Aina Yasue spoke at the recent Global Climate Strike on Salt Spring about the interconnections between housing, climate, community, and justice.
Are you considering leaving the island due to the stresses involved with finding or staying in a home? Know someone who is leaving or has already left? Please share your story.
Efforts to remove affordable housing from the Trust’s priority list were voted down last week, partly due to the hundreds of people who wrote or attended public meetings.
The Islands Trust is unsure if housing should be a top 5 issue on Salt Spring.
We published a response in the Times Colonist to accusations that maintaining some affordable housing for working people will lead to the destruction of nature on Salt Spring.
People like you sent 30 letters of support and the Croftonbrook affordable housing project got its latest approvals!
Nonprofit affordable housing project Croftonbrook continues to face strong opposition from some local residents. They need our help – again – with letters of support for housing solutions to the Islands Trust by July 28.
The Rally for housing solutions was amazing! Thanks for all who showed up. Now we need to show the wider Trust Council that housing action is climate action.
